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Publication details [#53013]

Williams, Howard. 2010. Implicit attribution. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 617–636.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attribution theory | genre | implicitness | writing

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that the risk-based principle of implicit attribution may help explain its minimal deployment in certain written genres (e.g., basic-level textbooks, newspapers and high-circulation magazines) and its maximal deployment in others (e.g., scholarly journals).